Claremont Police Blotter
On Friday, May 27, the Claremont Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint at an undisclosed location within the city. According to police, the checkpoint will start at 7 p.m. and will conclude at 2 a.m. at the undisclosed location. Drivers will be stopped long enough to ensure they are not under the influence of […]
Tuesday, May 10 It doesn’t sound like much of a prize, but what its owner described as “a 16-foot dirty aluminum boat” and trailer were reported stolen from the driveway of a home in the 3700 block of Williams Ave. A neighbor told police a white or silver early 2000s lifted Dodge Ram pickup pulled […]
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com Monday, May 2 A 26-year-old El Monte woman wanted for an alleged November 2021 hit-and-run accident turned herself in at Claremont Police Department headquarters at 11:38 a.m. Nancy Sotelo was then booked and released with a citation to appear in Pomona Superior Court. The case stems from a 2 a.m. […]
by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com During its April 26 meeting, the city council approved an ordinance approving the military equipment use policy of the Claremont Police Department, as required by state law. The action was required under Assembly Bill 481, the Law Enforcement and State Agencies Military Equipment Funding, Acquisition and Use Act, which went […]
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com Wednesday, April 27 A resident called the Claremont Police Department at 1:43 a.m. to report an unknown man had been ringing the doorbell and had then laid down on the front porch of a home in the 800 block of W. Base Line Rd. Responding officers say the suspect, a […]
A 55-year-old unhoused woman called the Claremont Police Department at 3:47 a.m. to report she had been robbed after being rousted by a man as she slept on the platform of the Metrolink station, 200 W. First St.
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com On Wednesday, April 6, in one of the more bizarre and frightening Police Blotter entries in memory, a suspected car thief was arrested on a litany of felony and misdemeanor charges after leading what amounted to the entire Claremont Police Department on a potentially dangerous chase that reads more like […]
Thursday, March 31 Claremont police are investigating a possible criminal threats case after an approximately 18-year-old man allegedly threatened to harm a 60-year-old Claremont High School proctor as she approached his car. The incident began after witnesses say the man was swerving and “fishtailing” through the student parking lot at CHS, 1601 N. Indian Hill […]
Wednesday, March 23 Claremont Police Department officers on patrol at 2:17 a.m. noticed an expired registration tag on a 2002 Ford F150 pickup truck and pulled it over near the corner of Base Line Rd. and Monte Vista Ave. A subsequent record check on the driver, Ronald Hernandez, 58, from Montclair, turned up two San […]
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officers remove marijuana plants from a grow house in the 100 block of Kirkwood Avenue on Monday. Officers from both Claremont Police and the S.B. County Sheriff’s marijuana enforcement team, took part in the 8 a.m. raid. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com Monday, March 14 Sometimes folks just don’t want help. Case in point, Claremont Police were called to the 1800 block of north Mountain Ave. at 11 p.m. regarding a person lying in a front yard. Arriving officers found a familiar face: a 36-year-old local unhoused man with whom they’d had […]
Crime in Claremont increased modestly in 2021 but remains remarkably low compared with 20 or even 30 years ago, according to an annual report from the Claremont Police department.
Tuesday, March 2 An opportunistic thief apparently hit the smash and grab jackpot after breaking a window of a 2010 Lexus and making off with more than $9,000 in goods and cash. Claremont Police took a report from a 42-year-old La Verne woman, who said her car’s window was smashed sometime between 9 and 10:45 […]
Tuesday, February 22 Neighboring Pomona Police Department’s license plate reading cameras picked up a stolen black 2009 Ford Fusion heading north on Indian Hill Blvd. about 1 a.m., and notified Claremont PD that it was headed toward the City of Trees. Claremont officers pulled over 59-year-old Chino resident Edwin Thurman at Indian Hill and Kingsley […]
A 25-year-old unhoused man riding a bicycle while guiding a second one with his free hand was pulled over by Claremont police at 11:54 p.m. after they allege he was heading the wrong way on the east side of Indian Hill Blvd. near the 10 freeway.
A 32-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah man was arrested for felony hit and run after taking off on foot after allegedly injuring a Claremont man in a rear-end collision.